I think there is something going on here that is not known by mortal monks in posession of a name. What was actually on the site when it was actually active? Is it a magic server that pops in and out of existence at the whims of the gods, and which contains untold treasure for those monks brave enough to find it? | [reply] |
Much of the publicly visible content of EveryDevel.com can be seen in the Wayback Machine.
For example, start with Everything Tour.
It was really just about the Everything engine (upon which, of course, PerlMonks is built) and the development thereof.
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and what if it comes back? | [reply] |
There is no way it will ever come back. For it to come back would allow for the possibility that: the site has been fully archived, the spammer/squatter that owns the domain now relinquishes it, and then someone with the site archive gets control of the domain and fully restores the site so that someone can look at a musty old site that hasn't been updated in many years. Probability of all that happening is 0 my friend.
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You talk like someone you doesn't understand how the DNS works.
Most likely, the machine is still out there, alive and well. To access it, all we'd need is its IP address.
That said, there's no reason we couldn't disable the nodelet now, and if EveryDevel ever pops up again, we could re-enable it.
OTOH, I don't quite see why it was ever exposed to non-developers.
If we simply removed it from general visibility, only the developers would care about it, and they
could disable it for themselves if they don't want to see it. We wouldn't have to hear people like you whinging about it.
Update: This has now been done: the "Everything Developer" nodelet is no longer available, except to pmdevils. (But note that if you already had this nodelet enabled, it is still there.)
Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.
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